Tradewinds is pleased to announce a change of venue for our Spring auction sale.

We will conduct our 35th all-cane live auction on May 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM at the Peabody Marriott in Peabody Mass. The Marriott is located at 6A Centennial Drive just off exit 28 on Route 128. It is a lovely, spacious location with free parking and lots of other amenities. We will continue to offer a 3% buyer's premium discount for all those personally attending the sale and we have arranged for special room rates by simply mentioning "Tradewinds auction" when booking. https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/bospb-boston-marriott-peabody/ For this sale only there will not be a Friday night private preview and lecture.

We have gathered a great array of high quality pieces and further information will follow in the coming weeks.

With very best wishes,

Henry Taron
Christopher Taron

Tradewinds is pleased to announce a change of venue for our 2009 live auctions. We are moving to the Marriott Peabody in Peabody Mass. just off Route 128 at exit 28. (Just keep bearing right off the exit.) It is a beautiful facility with lots of amenities including an indoor pool and fine restaurants.

Additionally, the spring auction will be on Saturday, May, 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM which is a change from what is posted on the website. We will not be having a night-before lecture for this event. (The website will be updated very shortly but because some of you have contacted me about accommodations for the spring sale, we are advising everyone now, by email.) We have arranged for very favorable room rates that you can take advantage of by simply mentioning the Tradewinds Auction. The direct line is 978-977-9700.

Much more information will follow in the coming weeks.

Best wishes for a prosperous 2009 for everyone!

Henry Taron

Salem, Massachusetts

On September 13, 2008, Tradewinds Antiques held its semi-annual all-cane live auction at the Salem Waterfront Hotel, in historic Salem Massachusetts. It was the thirty-third such event for America‚s Premier Cane Auction Housetm. and it was preceded by a private preview the night before along with a fine lecture on "Myths and Legends in Japanese Art", by Midori Oka, Associate Curator of Japanese Arts at Salem's Peabody Essex Museum.

The leader of the sale was a rare American silver cane with gold quartz that fetched $12,650. An important Tiffany silver Nast eagle made $10,925, while a great ivory knot nautical cane brought $9,200, as did a rare violin cane and a wonderful 1697 English ivory pique cane in unusual form. A finely carved ivory immortal achieved $6,900 as did a Remington small doghead curio. A great ivory ram made $6,325, a nautical snake on carved whalebone fetched $5,750, a superb ivory peacock achieved $5,463, and a fine ivory bison brought $5,175.

There were many other items in the $4,000, $3,000 and $2,000 levels and examples in all price ranges were sold.

The auction grossed a respectable $324,587.50 and all prices quoted include a 15% buyers premium.

Tradewinds‚ next event will be our October 30, 2008 Online-Only Auction

The next live auction will be April 25,2009, in Salem Mass.

Details of all events can be obtained by calling (978) 526-4085 or on the website at www.tradewindsantiques.com.

(Note: The lots cited above were #2, #100, #7, #75, #175, #45, #150, #20, #125 #6, and #155)

Tradewinds is pleased to present our 33nd all-cane live auction. The sale will be held at The Salem Waterfront Hotel in historic Salem Mass. on September 13, 2008, at 11:00 AM. We are in our 16th year of doing all-cane auctions and have gathered a wonderful array of antique canes. We will be offering 206 lots of carefully selected high quality pieces, with many rare and uncommon examples. Among the items to be presented will be a continuation of pieces from the late Philip Hampton’s fine collection, examples from the Stephen Rice Collection of Lake Forest, Ill., as well as items from the collection of Dr. Michael Roth of Pacific Palisades, Cal., and some pieces from a fine nautical Cape Cod collection.

The sale will be preceded the evening before, September 12th at 6:30 PM, by a special event and private auction preview at the Salem Waterfront Hotel. It will be our ninth pre-auction event. It will feature Midori Oka, Associate Curator of Japanese Art at the Salem’s Peabody/Essex Museum who will present a lecture on “Myths and Legends in Japanese Art”.

For carved ivory figural canes, highlights include: A great peacock, an outstanding ram’s head, a splendid skull & snake, a fine bear w/cubs, a great eagle w/nest & snake, a parrot with bar, a spread winged eagle, a ball & claw, an eagle w/acorns, a Chinese dragon, an architectural dome, a monster w/curled tongue, a Japanese Immortal, a full frog, a floral w/ebony snake & monkey, a greyhound, an Italian man, a god Mercury, a rat & grapes, a monkeys and grapes, a Japanese inked animals, an octopus, a long bearded man, a young maiden, a St. Bernard, a road-runner, a tiger & snake, a standing skeleton, a poet, a grapes & snake, an eagle head, a dog & boar, a claw & egg, a mouse w/concertina, a young sailor, a wolf, a hand w/skull, a spaniel, a Japanese w/shishi, a bison, a turkshead knot, a thousand faces, a horse’s hoof segmented, a boxing glove, a Long John Silver, a snake & blackman, an elephant w/mahout, a parrot w/hat, an “L” w/putti, a bull terrier, a jester, a sitting frog, a Robert Burns, and a man w/hand on head.

For decorative canes, highlights include: A fabulous silver with gold quartz, a fine 1694 English pique, a lovely Japanese silver floral w/enamel, an unusual 1697 English pique, a great Delft tau, a fine gold vintner’s cane, a niello sil. crook, an “L” damascene, a great gold & rubies, a painted porc. young Queen Victoria, a silver & snakewood, an ivory shibayama w/insects, a bloodstone & silver, a frosted rock cry7stal, a goldstone ball, an amethyst w/rings, a rock crystal w/gold lattice, a Japanese enamel, a Russian enamel tau, an enamel w/rose quartz, an ivory w/sil. overlay, a sil. w/tortoiseshell veneer, a short “L” cloisonné, a straight damascene, a sil.& gold w/mop & turquoise, a pale blue enamel, a Wedgwood & silver, an early iv. & malacca, an iv.Art Deco crook, a sil. Art Nouveau floral, an iv. & sil. shibayama, a tortoiseshell & enamel, an opalescent glass w/silver, a purple cloisonné, a purple enamel ball & stem, a lapis ball, a sil. Art Nouveau w/leaves, a porc. ball w/courting scene, a white floral enamel, a Meissen tau w/birds, a sil. & enamel w/ivory, an etched crystal w/ jewels, an 18th C sil. & malacca, an ivory w/abalone inlay, a blue decorative enamel, a cloisonné w/dragon, and an ivory “L” handle.

For gadget canes, highlights include: A scarce and important violin, a rare Tiffany watch, a great silver Masonic folding ball, a scarce Remington small doghead curio, a Masonic ceremonial sword, an undertaker’s cane, a wood,“blocks-in-chamber, a sil. pop-up pencil, a brass cheroot curio, a sil. hand dagger curio, a telescope & compass, a baleen wrapped telescope, a whale tooth snuff, an iv. bulldog w/artic. mouth, a tripod, a wood airedale w/artic. mouth, an iv. fist w/stanhope, a sil. watch w/monkey, a sil. w/coral & turquoise snuff, a cased tramp art w/ball-in-chamber, a watch w/magnifier, a wood balls-in-chamber, a wood greyhound w/artic. mouth, an iv.1828 sword cane curio, a pill box w/amethyst top, a Danish gun cane curio, a cigarette lighter, a whip gadget, an iv. monkey w?artic. tongue, a wood mastiff automaton, a sil. & ivory snake w/artic. tongue, a flick stick curio, a Toledo sword curio, a siren gadget, and a bugle cane.

For non-ivory figural canes, highlights include: A wonderful Tiffany sil. Nast eagle, a great porcelain man w/long hat, a classic Art Deco sil. elephant a lovely malachite pug w/diamonds, a fine Russian sil. angel, a gutta percha ball & claw, a silvered bronze semi-nude, a Tiffany sil. w/golf bag, a sil. eagle, a porc. pirate, a a sil. eagle w/iv. beak, a porc. lady w/feather, a silver & ivory lady, a porc. lady w/veil, an Art Nouveau w/smokers, an erotic sil. satyr chasing a woman, a Meissen porc. mountain pick, a wood full eagle, an ebony lamb, a sil. lady over ivory, a boxwood rats & egg, a horn hare’s head, a Nymphenburg porc. lady, a burl dog & hand, a wood full jockey, a sil. shore bird, small sil. eagle, an ebony back man, a Japanese bamboo w/ legendary figures, an ebony blackamoor, a wood Royal Guardsman, a bone snake in relief, a sil. swan’s head, a boxwood maiden, a wood alligator, and a wood greyhound.

For nautical canes, highlights include: A wonderful whale iv. knot on carved whalebone, a fine iv. spotted snake on whalebone, an unusual baleen & cording cane, a great iv. sea monster on whalebone, a scarce narwhal w/wood cap, a whale iv. fist on palmwood, a whale iv. twin snakes, a baleen fully wrapped telescope, a whale iv. & whalebone w/baleen dots, a whale iv. knob on twisted whalebone, a whale ivory sperm whale, a whale iv. fist w/mop inlay, a whale iv. crook on whalebone, an iv. w/loose ring on whalebone, an ebony knob on whalebone, a whale iv. lady’s leg on whalebone, an iv. looped snake on whalebone, a whale iv. turned knob w/mop, and a whale iv fist w/wood separators.

For folk art, political, historical, & relic canes highlights include: A great Antietam reconciliation cane, an important Benjamin Perry 1774 cane, an early Constitution relic w/ivory knob, a superb carved Little Round Top signed cane, a Mark Twain Homestead cane, a wood & silver Knights Templar, a gold Gen. Curtis MOH winner, a carved wood Kaiser Wilhelm, a cedar1915 Bermuda POW, a gold Cuban dungeon door relic, an 1855 Fort Duquesne relic, a Robert Burns ivory, and a Devil’s Den w/pyrography.

For books, highlights are: A La Canne Objet D’Art, as well as Cane Curiosa, both by Dike.

A 15% Buyers premium will be added to the hammer price of each lot. A 3% discount will be subtracted from the hammer price of each lot for any buyer personally attending and purchasing at the sale. Telephone bidding and absentee bidding, either written or electronic, do not qualify for the 3% discount.

Make sure you make plans for your accommodations early because Greater Salem is a popular location.

Places to stay: The Salem Waterfront Hotel 888 337-2536 (mention the Tradewinds Auction for a discounted rate.) The Hawthorne Hotel in Salem 800 729-7829 The Marriott in Peabody 877 901-2083 Courtyard by Marriott in Danvers 888 686-5064

(Additionally, Salem is only 30 minutes drive from Boston and 20 minutes by train)

With warmest regards,

Henry A. Taron & Christopher H. Taron

If you wish to order a fully pictured catalog, please call us at (978) 526-4085, $40.00 U.S., $45.00 outside. (MasterCard or Visa accepted).